Ken: Ardour does look promising.
The main issue I notice about ardour is that it depends on Jack currently. It is possible to hack a Solaris system to sort of work with Jack via the SFEjack package at spec-files-extra, but it would probably be necessary to get this working with OSS or SunAudio devices directly if we wanted to seriously suggest people use this on Solaris. I'd say most Solaris users would more seriously consider using audacity or jokosher (though jokosher is less mature) since these programs already support OSS to a greater degree. If there is any interest in the opensource community in helping to port ardour (and similar media programs that depend on JACK or ALSA) to OSS, then that would be neat. Brian > "Ardour is a digital audio workstation. You can use it to record, edit and > mix multi-track audio. You can produce your own CDs, mix video soundtracks, > or just experiment with new ideas about music and sound. > > Ardour capabilities include: multichannel recording, non-destructive editing > with unlimited undo/redo, full automation support, a powerful mixer, > unlimited tracks/busses/plugins, timecode synchronization, and hardware > control from surfaces like the Mackie Control Universal. If you've been > looking for a tool similar to ProTools, Nuendo, Pyramix, or Sequoia, you > might have found it. > > Above all, Ardour strives to meet the needs of professional users. This means > implementing all the "hard stuff" that other DAWs ( even some leading > commercial apps ) handle incorrectly or not at all. Ardour has a completely > flexible "anything to anywhere" routing system, and will allow as many > physical I/O ports as your system allows. Ardour supports a wide range of > audio-for-video features such as video-synced playback and pullup/pulldown > sample rates. You will also find powerful features such as "persistent undo", > multi-language support, and destructive track punching modes that aren't > available on other platforms. " > > Get source from: http://ardour.org/files/releases/ardour-2.1.tar.bz2 > > Note: This seemed like an appropriate proof-of-concept application to support > multimedia on Solaris. > > ~ Ken Mays > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org
